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    Another carb ?

    How come carbs differ on raw VS cooked broccoli and spinach ?

    When adding my foods on fitday I noticed a cup of broccoli has 4 grams of carbs raw but 13 grams cooked. How does steaming or boiling broccoli or spinach add carbs ?

    Thanks in advance for answers.

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    It's physically impossible to add grams of carbs to a food by cooking it, unless you add something to it. I'm not sure about fitday, but the calorie counter I use is sometimes off because anyone can add nutrition facts for food.

    And in my experience, people are stupid. For example, someone put a glass of milk as having only 10g of carbs but 12g of sugar. Not possible.

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    lol..cause when you cook it it reduces in size, especially spinach. So now it takes way more spinach,broc,etc., to make that same cup. If you ate a cup of cooked spinach, that probably would've been about 3 or 4 cups raw. Great way to down some freakin spinach is to take a gang of it and wilt it for like 1 minute in some olive oil with your favorite spices and or caramelize some onion first then throw the spin in. A bag of the stuff literally turns to nothing. I don't cook it more than a minute literally. Just til it folds over.
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    It losses water when it's cooked, there's actually more broccoli florets from raw vs cooked or frozen vs cooked. Try it out yourself.

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